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June 2003
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| Atlantic
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| | 10th International Conference on High Performance Computing issues Call for Participation
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| | Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design issues Call for Participation
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| | 2003 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing issues Call for Participation
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| | International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications issues Call for Papers
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| | Faster Power 4+ processors for Research Center Jülich
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| | New BioMed Central Member Max Planck supports open access to research
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| Europe
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| | Deadline for IST 2003 exhibition proposals extended until May 19
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| | IT Pharma Solutions Conference with special track on Grid computing
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| | IDUG 2003 Europe issues Call for Participation
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| | TRAIN-IT: EU-funded entrepreneurship training - last course and future steps
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| Industry
- Applications |
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| | HP Superdome Server simulates processing of one of world's largest payrolls in less than a single shift
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| | The Chrysler Group adopts Intel Itanium 2-based system cluster from HP and MSC.Software
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| | Powerful shading capability for Dassault Systèmes PLM solutions
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| | MCAE software available on Altix 3000
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| | ESI Group announces SYSWELD 2003
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| | NHK deploys Kasenna MPEG-4 video streaming solution with SGI
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| | Twelfth Euromicro Conference issues Call for Papers
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| | Delphax selects Dot Hill's SANnet for high speed printing solution
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| | Locus Pharmaceuticals and Speedel Experimenta join forces in the race for novel renin inhibitors
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| Industry
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| | American HPC User Forum meets European HPC Community
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| | American HPC User Forum meets Europeans - Personal Comment
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| | Supercomputer inquistitors to put vendors in the hot seat in Heidelberg
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| | Fujitsu Siemens packages SuSE Linux with PRIMERGY Servers
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| | HP announces realignment of enterprise business
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| | SGI Itanium 2 processor-based system added to Dutch National Supercomputing Facility at SARA
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| | NEC-HPCE Company, inaugurated in Düsseldorf
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| | Cray announces $16.0 million in orders for Cray X1 systems
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| | IBM debuts eServer zSeries 990
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| | Cray X1 supercomputer demonstrates superior processor speed and efficiency on industry-standard Linpack test
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| | Caen Engineering to resell Dot Hill's SANnet II storage systems
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| | IBM introduces first pre-packaged Blade superclusters
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| | SGI restructures
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| | iQstor releases iQ1000 storage system to deliver SAN solutions for small to mid-sized businesses
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| | Wolfgang Dreyer joins NEC-HPCE as Sales Manager
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| | CA's Kumar outlines managing on-demand computing strategy
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| | HP blade servers score high on Web, e-mail, and ERP benchmarks
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| | The IBM on demand operating environment
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| | Cray announces first quarter 2003 financial results
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| | IBM delivers world's top performing transaction server and database
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| | Newisys inks reseller agreement with high-density server manufacturer RackSaver
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| | IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing extends deadline for paper submission
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| Industry
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| | Storm Weather Center using Scali high performance cluster software for advanced computing
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| | Linux Networx Cluster System speeds development of disease diagnostic products
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| | Sun and Red Hat enter into global partnership agreement
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| | Terra Soft ships Yellow Dog Linux v3.0
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| | SuSE Linux announces standard Linux platform to create advanced voice, data and wireless applications
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| | Linux Networx expands management team
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| | Super Computer, Inc. (SCI) to unveil AMD Opteron processor-based cluster
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| | HP achieves first Linux clustered Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark
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| Industry
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| | St. Anthony's selects IBM technology to deliver real-time access to patient medical images
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| | Christie's new Matrix line expands purpose-built simulation projector offerings
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| | SGI tops graphics, server and workstation categories in World Oil Visualisation Center survey
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| | AGM'S Recon now encompasses SGI 3D seismic volume visualisation
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| | Fakespace Systems announces world's first 1600 x 1200 active stereo digital projection technology
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| | Dimension Technologies joins 3D Consortium
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| Industry
- The Grid |
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| | GigaportNG to heavily rely on Grid computing
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| | Spanish Grid technology for the Japanese market
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| | BAE explores new Grid horizons in Vogon projects
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| | Nordic Grid and SweGrid
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| | A Grid is not a supercomputer
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| | IBM announces new Grid offerings, partners to form Grid ecosystem
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| | OGSA-DAI Release 2 available
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| | Grids Center releases NMI-R3 software suite
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| | Stable Globus version 2.4 released - also experimentel 2.5
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| | Distributed Management Task Force and Global Grid Forum announce alliance partnership
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| | American Diabetes Association taps power of Gateway Grid to expedite services to more than 17 million Americans
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| | First phase FightAIDS@Home completed
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| | IBM virtualises application resources for Grid computing
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| | GGF8 addresses the building of Grids: Obstacles and Opportunities
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| | Canada to launch $44 million e-research investment
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| | Butterfly.net to present groundbreaking titles from leading studios on its games Grid
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| | Rothberg Institute Leveraging Internet to Mount First Computer-Based Effort Against SARS
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| | Dissemination Day of the European Grid Industry and Research Forum
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| | Platform Computing holds user forum
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| | Voltaire HPC starters kit for InfiniBand clusters
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| | IBM introduces storage virtualisation
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| | IBM published conceptual flyover for developers of Grid computing
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| | New Sun compute Grid rack systems
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| | IBM launches software and solution to help businesses extend key information to mobile workers
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| | IBM acquires Think Dynamics
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| | IBM delivers real-time Information Integration software
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| | Madrid Autonomous Region deploys research network with Nortel Networks Solutions
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| | InfiniCon Systems launches low-profile HCA and embedded fabric management for its InfiniBand-based Shared I/O and Clustering Systems
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| | Successful pilot leads to partnership between datiq and COLT
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| | GridG Version 1.0
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June 2003
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| Atlantic
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| | 10th International Conference on High Performance Computing issues Call for Participation
The 10th Annual International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2003)
will be held in Hyderabad, an emerging center for Information Technology in India,
during December 17-20, 2003. It will serve as a forum to present current work by
researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the
high performance computing area. The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world.
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| | Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design issues Call for Participation
The Workshop on Complexity-Effective Design will be held June 7, 2003 in San Diego, California, in conjunction with the 30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 30).
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| | 2003 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing issues Call for Participation
Early registration is now open for the 2003 International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'03) which will be held at the Crowne Plaza Union Square from June 21-26, 2003 in San Francisco, California, USA. The early registration deadline is May 31, 2003. |
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| | International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications issues Call for Papers
The Second IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2004, will be organised March 14-17, 2004 in Orlando, Florida. Deadline for paper submission is September 1, 2003. |
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| | Faster Power 4+ processors for Research Center Jülich
On May 6, IBM announced the faster Power 4+ processors with a 1,7 GHz clock. These processors will be available in June and will be installed in the new part of IBM's delivery in July 2003. Additionally ZAM (Central Institute of Applied Mathematics), Research Center Jülich, announced a colloquium on parallel processing: "Efficient parallel Algorithms", in German.
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| | New BioMed Central Member Max Planck supports open access to research
The Max Planck Society has become a BioMed Central Institutional Member. This move, by one of the world's premier scientific research organisations, follows a recent call by some German politicians for government and state funded research to be published on-line and freely available.
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| | Deadline for IST 2003 exhibition proposals extended until May 19
The Calls for Ideas for IST 2003 Exhibits has already generated a lot of interest. Many organisations, however, have contacted the Organising Committee requesting extra time. The deadline has therefore been extended until May 19 for Exhibits only. Those who have already submitted a proposal may revise and resubmit it once if they wish. |
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| | IT Pharma Solutions Conference with special track on Grid computing
IT Pharma Solutions will be held June 16-18, 2003 at Radisson SAS in Brussels, Belgium. The organisers invite registrants to participate in an intensive programme challenging the most current structural and business problems faced by IT specialists in the pharma industry. On Wednesday 18 June, a special feature will address Grid Applications in Pharma Effective management of data and information, showcasing example applications. |
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| | IDUG 2003 Europe issues Call for Participation
IDUG 2003 - Europe will be held 7-10 October at Nice Acropolis, in Nice, France. |
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| | TRAIN-IT: EU-funded entrepreneurship training - last course and future steps
The last course date of the IST-Accompanying Measure TRAIN-IT is 1-7 June. The upcoming TRAIN-IT
Workshop in combination with the OpVent Conference for Business Opportunities and Joint Ventures will be held 22-24 May 2003 at IZET Innovationszentrum Itzehoe. |
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| Industry
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| | HP Superdome Server simulates processing of one of world's largest payrolls in less than a single shift
The HP Superdome server simulated the processing of one of the world's largest payroll systems consisting of monthly, weekly and biweekly payroll checks for more than 2.6 million employees, in less than four hours, according to benchmark testing conducted at HP's Americas Solution Center in Cupertino, California. |
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| | The Chrysler Group adopts Intel Itanium 2-based system cluster from HP and MSC.Software
The Chrysler Group, a unit of DaimlerChrysler, has migrated part of its High Performance Computing (HPC) center to Intel Itanium 2 processor-based HP Workstation zx6000 with HP-UX in a rack configuration running MSC.Software's Virtual Product Development applications.
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| | Powerful shading capability for Dassault Systèmes PLM solutions
SGI has made available SGI OpenGL Shader technology for CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA Version 5 Release 11. The availability of OpenGL Shader within Dassault Systèmes PLM solutions will allow manufacturing customers to increase the realism of digital mock-ups at no additional hardware costs, accelerate the design process and shorten time to market for their products. |
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| | MCAE software available on Altix 3000
Several mechanical computer-aided engineering (MCAE) software applications are available on the SGI Altix 3000 family of high-performance Linux HPC servers and superclusters,
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| | ESI Group announces SYSWELD 2003
ESI Group has made available SYSWELD 2003. SYSWELD models complex material behaviour including metallurgy, and simulates processes such as heat treatment, welding and welding assembly. With its new, state-of-the-art advisor technology, the 2003 release enables part designers and practitioners to save time for setting-up simulation and analysis of virtual parts and processes.
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| | NHK deploys Kasenna MPEG-4 video streaming solution with SGI
Kasenna and SGI have announced that NHK, Japan's oldest major broadcasting company, has brought on-line an MPEG-4 video server system from SGI Japan Ltd. to archive video assets spanning the network's 50-year history.
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| | Twelfth Euromicro Conference issues Call for Papers
The 12th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2004) will be organised in A Coruña, Spain, February 11-13, 2004. Deadline for paper submission is June 13, 2003.
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| | Delphax selects Dot Hill's SANnet for high speed printing solution
Dot Hill's SANnet II storage systems have been selected by Delphax Technologies for its CR Series of continuous-feed digital printing solutions. SANnet II is being integrated into the CR series to spool data coming from the server to the printer.
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| | Locus Pharmaceuticals and Speedel Experimenta join forces in the race for novel renin inhibitors
Locus Pharmaceuticals has initiated a research collaboration to design and develop novel renin inhibitors with the Speedel Group, a Swiss pharmaceutical company focused on cardiovascular and metabolic drug development. |
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| | American HPC User Forum meets European HPC Community
On May 20th, the American HPC User Forum for the first time met European Users in Bristol, UK, and on May 22nd in Annecy, France. In total more than 100 scientists participated. This event starts the dialogue between US and European HPC users and buyers. The European market is very dynamic because of the different countries and languages and not identical to the US market. During the meetings vendors as well as users presented their experiences, application areas and news. (Uwe Harms) |
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| | American HPC User Forum meets Europeans - Personal Comment
Participating in the Annecy meeting, I found some pros and cons. But the most important message is the co-operation of US and European HPC users and buyers to have a broader community to push the vendors for optimised systems for the technical and scientific HPC market. (Uwe Harms) |
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| | Supercomputer inquistitors to put vendors in the hot seat in Heidelberg
At the Heidelberg Supercomputer conference, ISC2003, in June, will have an afternoon session where all supercomputer vendors will present there news. To be sure, they tell the thruth, the organisation has asked several experts to act as inquistitor and ask difficult and tricky questions to the vendors.
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| | Fujitsu Siemens packages SuSE Linux with PRIMERGY Servers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers and SuSE Linux today announced a joint offering combining PRIMERGY servers with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 - significantly simplifying the ordering process for partners and customers and more closely melding hardware and software. |
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| | HP announces realignment of enterprise business
HP announced a staffing and operational realignment within its Enterprise Systems Group (ESG). There will be one hardware business unit, now called Enterprise Storage and Servers (ESS), under Senior Vice President Scott Stallard. ESS consolidates the existing units of Business Critical Systems, Industry Standard Servers and Network Storage Solutions into one global business unit for streamlined hardware operations.
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| | SGI Itanium 2 processor-based system added to Dutch National Supercomputing Facility at SARA
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) will upgrade its current SGI Origin 3000 infrastructure with an additional SGI Altix 3000 system powered by 416 Intel Itanium 2 processors and 832 GByte of memory. The system will be installed at SARA Computing and Networking Services, the Dutch National HPC and Networking Center.
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| | NEC-HPCE Company, inaugurated in Düsseldorf
Four top executives from NEC including Mr. Tadao Kondo Senior Vice President, Computers, of NEC Corporation, Tokyo and Mr. Masaharu Sudoh, Managing Director of the new NEC High Performance Computing Europe GmbH company (HPCE), were lined up this morning at an inauguration Press briefing to explain the vision of the new company and answer questions.
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| | Cray announces $16.0 million in orders for Cray X1 systems
Global supercomputer leader Cray today reported that it has received orders valued at approximately $16.0 million for Cray X1 equipment and related technology and services from undisclosed customers. Shipments are scheduled to begin in mid-2003 and continue through mid-2004. |
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| | IBM debuts eServer zSeries 990
IBM has introduced the IBM eServer zSeries 990, the new mainframe flagship of the eServer family.
The new z990 is the result of a four-year, more than $1 billion investment in the zSeries platform involving 1200 IBM developers. |
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| | Cray X1 supercomputer demonstrates superior processor speed and efficiency on industry-standard Linpack test
Cray announced Linpack results for the new X1 supercomputer.
On Cray X1 systems varying from 4 to 60 processors, the per-processor speed averaged 11.55 Gflop/s), 2.5 to 10.6 times faster than the published per-processor speeds of HPC products from other U.S. vendors. |
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| | Caen Engineering to resell Dot Hill's SANnet II storage systems
Dot Hill's SANnet II storage systems will be resold by Caen Engineering and subsidiary CaenAV. Caen Engineering will target the education, government and geophysical exploration sectors. CaenAV specialises in storage solutions for the digital audio, video, graphics and animation markets. |
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| | IBM introduces first pre-packaged Blade superclusters
IBM has married two of the most powerful trends in computing - Linux clusters and Blade servers - with the introduction of the first pre-packaged and tested supercluster that is ultra-dense and incredibly easy to manage.
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| | SGI restructures
Silicon Graphics is implementing an action plan to lower
costs and shift focus to specific growth areas.
The plan includes the elimination of approximately 400 positions, or 10% of the company's employees, in specific areas. |
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| | iQstor releases iQ1000 storage system to deliver SAN solutions for small to mid-sized businesses
iQstor Networks a developer of integrated Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions,
announced the general availability release of their iQ1000 SAN Storage System.
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| | Wolfgang Dreyer joins NEC-HPCE as Sales Manager
Wolfgang Dreyer has taken the responsibility as a Sales Manager for IA-Systems with NEC-HPCE in Stuttgart with the 12th of May 2003.
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| | CA's Kumar outlines managing on-demand computing strategy
Computer Associates (CA) Chairman and CEO, Sanjay Kumar, unveiled the company's innovative managing on-demand computing strategy and a comprehensive portfolio of supporting software solutions.
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| | HP blade servers score high on Web, e-mail, and ERP benchmarks
HP has unveiled new benchmarks, its latest ProLiant blade servers and a multitude of new customers using ProLiant blade server solutions designed to create a more adaptive infrastructure and drive down cost and complexity across their IT environments.
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| | The IBM on demand operating environment
E-business on demand is a statement of IBM's belief as to how businesses will need to transform themselves to be successful. As they adapt to cope with ever increasing pressures from competition and other factors associated with an increasingly globalised economy. This implies a transformation to a fully integrated business across people, processes and information, including suppliers and distributors, customers and employees. |
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| | Cray announces first quarter 2003 financial results
Cray reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2003. The company reported total revenue of $44.1 million compared to $35.2 million in the same period last year. Net income for the quarter was $1.2 million compared to first quarter 2002 net income of $749,000. |
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| | IBM delivers world's top performing transaction server and database
IBM has announced a new world record for transaction processing. A new eServer pSeries system and DB2 Universal Database used half the number of processors to beat HP's Itanium 2-based Superdome running Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
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| | Newisys inks reseller agreement with high-density server manufacturer RackSaver
Newisys a developer of enterprise-class AMD Opteron-based server designs for Tier 1 OEMs and system builders, has announced a reseller agreement with RackSaver, a provider of high-density individual rack-optimised servers and supercomputing clusters. Under the agreement, San Diego, California-based RackSaver will offer the Newisys 2100 Enterprise-Class Server as the RSN-1164/op. |
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| | IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing extends deadline for paper submission
The IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing - Cluster 2003 - which will be held December 1-4, 2003 in Hong Kong, has extended the deadline for paper submission to June 23, 2003. The event is organised by the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Hong Kong. |
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| | Storm Weather Center using Scali high performance cluster software for advanced computing
Scali has completed the installation of a high performance Linux-based cluster at Storm Weather Center to run advanced parallel computing tasks. The cluster is built with 13 dual 2.8 GHz Dell 2650 PowerEdge nodes using high-speed Gigabit Ethernet interconnections with a maximum performance of 291 Gflops/second (single precision). Hardware components were supplied by Dell, while Scali provided software, system installation, application tuning services and ongoing support.
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| | Linux Networx Cluster System speeds development of disease diagnostic products
diaDexus, a developer of diagnostic and therapeutic products, is using a Linux Networx Evolocity II (E2) cluster computing system to expedite the development of diagnostic products for cancer and cardiovascular disease. The E2 system has helped speed the rate of gene analysis for the development of future diagnostic products from weeks to hours, or by more than 20x compared to the large, multiprocessing RISC-based machine diaDexus used previously.
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| | Sun and Red Hat enter into global partnership agreement
Sun has entered into a global alliance agreement with Red Hat to distribute Red Hat's Enterprise Linux operating system. As part of the agreement, Red Hat will distribute Sun's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Sun will sell and support all x86 versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux including Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS.
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| | Terra Soft ships Yellow Dog Linux v3.0
Terra Soft is now shipping Yellow Dog Linux version 3.0, a new generation of Linux
for the PowerPC architecture. |
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| | SuSE Linux announces standard Linux platform to create advanced voice, data and wireless applications
SuSE Linux announced a Carrier-Grade Linux (CGL) edition of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, powered by UnitedLinux. Developed in conjunction with HP, IBM and Intel Corporation, and targeted initially for Intel-based hardware platforms, SuSE Linux CGL Edition provides wide scalability, from real-time systems to back-end processing enabling customers to use a single platform. |
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| | Linux Networx expands management team
Cluster supercomputing vendor Linux Networx added six new executives as part of a long-term growth strategy.
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| | Super Computer, Inc. (SCI) to unveil AMD Opteron processor-based cluster
The 44 dual-node cluster (total 88, 1.6 GHz AMD Opteron processors),
known as Project Avalanche, was developed in cooperation between SCI,
RackSaver and AMD. The cluster is also the first gaming cluster to
natively run 32- and 64bit game titles simultaneously. Its main
function will be to run the backend for the extremely popular Americas
Army Game, produced by the U.S. Army. |
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| | HP achieves first Linux clustered Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark
Industry-standard HP ProLiant servers running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 have achieved the industry's first clustered Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark (OASB) on Linux.
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| | St. Anthony's selects IBM technology to deliver real-time access to patient medical images
St. Anthony's Medical Center is installing a new data centre using IBM storage, server and software, allowing physicians to access patient information, including large diagnostic image files, such as X-rays, mammographys and CAT scans, typically in 30 seconds or less. The new system will allow doctors to access high-resolution images quickly from a computer. Previously, medical images from radiology would have to be stored on film, retrieved and hand delivered to doctors. |
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| | Christie's new Matrix line expands purpose-built simulation projector offerings
Christie has introduced a new series of projectors designed for high-resolution graphics applications in simulation training, research/development and design.
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| | SGI tops graphics, server and workstation categories in World Oil Visualisation Center survey
SGI has swept key graphics and high-performance computing (HPC) categories in World Oil's survey of more than 80 oil and gas companies around the world that have their own visualisation centres. The survey results, just published in a supplement to the magazine's May 2003 issue, find that 88% of surveyed companies use SGI graphics products and 86% use SGI HPC products.
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| | AGM'S Recon now encompasses SGI 3D seismic volume visualisation
AGM's Recon, a 3D geological interpretation package traditionally used to visualise and correlate oil well data, has now been expanded to enable volumetric analysis of 3D seismic data. |
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| | Fakespace Systems announces world's first 1600 x 1200 active stereo digital projection technology
Fakespace Systems has developed the world's first ultra high-resolution, digital, active stereoscopic projection system. The new projection technology increases available pixel density up to 1600 x 1200 Ultra XGA (UXGA) resolution, providing an extremely bright and stable display with unprecedented detail for use in advanced visualisation solutions.
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| | Dimension Technologies joins 3D Consortium
Dimension Technologies has joined the 3D Consortium, a worldwide organisation dedicated to encouraging the growth and development of a full-fledged market for 3D applications and products. |
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| | GigaportNG to heavily rely on Grid computing
The next generation of Gigaport/Surfnet, the high-speed network of The Netherlands, will rely on Grid services as an important new infrastructure layer. Gigaport/Surfnet claims to be the best and fastest research network in the world. Details of the plans were presented by Gigaport chair Paul 't Hoen at a conference in Utrecht to Froggy, a Virtual Reality frog that appeared on the display screen.
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| | Spanish Grid technology for the Japanese market
BestSystems and the Spanish company GridSystems have signed a distribution agreement that will grant Grid Research, subsidiary of BestSystems, to distribute in the Japanese market the InnerGrid Software developed by GridSystems. The agreement includes duties about both commercialization and support. |
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| | BAE explores new Grid horizons in Vogon projects
Computer aided engineering is one of the first industries to take-up Grid computing, is it not? Well in fact it is not. Collaborative engineering is a way of live for large engineering companies like BAE that is involved in many aerospace development projects like Airbus and the JSF. So much of the collaborative environment and software already predates the Grid. So it is more that engineers were doing Grid computing before the word came en vogue. Of course, as Alan Gould from the Advanced Technology Centre of BAE Systems explained last week at the HP Grid computing conference in Amsterdam, BAE is exploring new Grid in a number of VOGON (Virtual Organisation using Grid-enabled, Objective-led Networking) projects. The trial to use untapped PC-resources for large jobs did not work: the BAE applications are not suited for that. Of interest is the global resource model he developed. Showing what has been done to date - a little -, what will be done in five years - a little more -, and what must be done to make virtual organisations work - much more.
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| | Nordic Grid and SweGrid
In his Grid overview presentation at the HP Grid Conference last week in Amsterdam, Lennart Johnsson
Director, PDC supercomputer centre of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden, mentioned several Grid initatives on a Swedish (SweGrid), Scandinavian (Nordic Grid) and European Scale (European Grid Support Centre).
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| | A Grid is not a supercomputer
Sara Murphy, HP's Grid Guru, expects that over the next 5-10 years, Grid computing will have an enorumous impact. Grid computing will do for resources what web technology did for infrastructure. She explained this at the special HP Grid Symposium last week in Amsterdam. HP is also trying to figure out how to match its products onto the Grid paradigm. One result is a gateway between its flagship resource management software Utility Data Center (UDC) and Globus. Apart from the public domain sofware, HP is also working with commercial Grid software providers, including GridXpert, GridSystems, Avaki, and Platform.
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| | IBM announces new Grid offerings, partners to form Grid ecosystem
IBM announced new offerings to further expand Grid computing into commercial enterprises, including the introduction of new solutions for four industries: petroleum, electronics, higher education and agricultural chemicals. In addition IBM announced that more than 35 companies, including networking giant Cisco Systems, will join IBM to form the foundation of a Grid ecosystem that is designed to foster Grid computing for businesses. |
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| | OGSA-DAI Release 2 available
OGSA-DAI Release 2 has been made avaialble by the OGSA-DAI team. The new release works with Globus Toolkit 3 Alpha 3. OGSA DAi is UK developed middleware to assist with access and integration of data from separate data sources via the Grid. |
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| | Grids Center releases NMI-R3 software suite
The US Grid center has released NMI-R3 of the Grids Center Software Suite. The software serves as a stable foundation on which Grid implementers can build customized applications for science and engineering. New to the suite are a credential authority called MyProxy, a Grid tool based on the popular Message Passing Interface standard called MPICH-G2, and a tool for customizing Grids component configurations called GridConfig. |
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| | Stable Globus version 2.4 released - also experimentel 2.5
The Globus project has released Globus Toolkit 2.4: a stable version of the toolkit. There is also an experimental version 2.5. and aresearch version 3.0. |
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| | Distributed Management Task Force and Global Grid Forum announce alliance partnership
Distributed Management Task Force . (DMTF) and the Global Grid Forum (GGF) have entered into an alliance partnership to establish a unified approach to the provisioning, sharing and management of grid computing resources and technologies. Under its liaison agreement, DMTF will provide its expertise in distributed management infrastructure and resource modelling, while GGF will contribute model requirements and extensions in support of grid computing, resource sharing and provisioning. |
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| | American Diabetes Association taps power of Gateway Grid to expedite services to more than 17 million Americans
Significantly increasing the speed and accuracy at which the more than 17 million Americans with diabetes can find the best treatments, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has selected the grid-computing service from Gateway and United Devices, specialised in secure grid solutions. |
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| | First phase FightAIDS@Home completed
Entropia and the Olson Laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), the US largest private, non-profit biomedical research organisation, have successfully completed the initial phase of the FightAIDS@Home (FAAH) research project. FAAH accelerates AIDS research by generating and testing candidate drug compounds against detailed models of evolving AIDS viruses. |
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| | IBM virtualises application resources for Grid computing
IBM WebSphere becomes the first application server to offer this grid capability built in. by allowing for existing IT resources to automatically manage multiple applications running on multiple clusters of servers as a single environment.
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| | GGF8 addresses the building of Grids: Obstacles and Opportunities
The Eighth Global Grid Forum meeting (GGF8) will be held in Seattle, Washington from 24-27
June. Keynote speakers include Dr. Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, Acting Director of Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures, Applications, DG Information Society, European Commission and Prof. David Wallace, Vice Chancellor, Loughborough University. |
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| | Canada to launch $44 million e-research investment
Three major computer companies have been selected to build the CAD $44 million research infrastructure of WestGrid (Western Canada Research Grid), project leaders announced as part of the official WestGrid launch, held simultaneously in Edmonton and Vancouver earlier this month. |
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| | Butterfly.net to present groundbreaking titles from leading studios on its games Grid
Butterfly.net along with leading game studios from North America, Europe and Asia demonstrate what it means to be 'On Grid' - in this case, the Butterfly Grid for "Massively-multi-player online games" (MMOGs). |
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| | Rothberg Institute Leveraging Internet to Mount First Computer-Based Effort Against SARS
The Rothberg Institute for
Childhood Diseases, a non-profit research institute devoted to discovering and
developing drugs for orphan childhood diseases, today announced the addition
of a recently discovered SARS target to its D2OL (Drug Design and Optimization
Lab) grid computing project. This addition has led to the installation of
D2OL on 29,000 new computers worldwide to speed up its efforts to identify
potential new drugs capable of treating SARS and other emerging microbial
diseases. |
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| | Dissemination Day of the European Grid Industry and Research Forum
The next open meeting of the European Grid Industry and Research Forum will be held in Barcelona, Spain, the 14th of May. The project managers of the main EU funded Grid projects as DataGrid,
CrossGrid, Datatag, representatives of the European Union and industries will afford all the aspects of Grids. |
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| | Platform Computing holds user forum
On Wednesday 18 June, 2003, Platform Computing organises a one-day user forum designed with Platform customers for Platform customers in London, the United Kingdom. In this one-day forum, experts from Platform and representatives from the Platform user community will discuss the development of Platform LSF and the Platform product roadmap. |
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| | Voltaire HPC starters kit for InfiniBand clusters
Voltaire, specialised in intelligent connectivity for high performance InfiniBand solutions, made available an HPC starter kit for customers and resellers to rapidly and easily deploy InfiniBand clusters in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. |
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| | IBM introduces storage virtualisation
IBM has introduced a new family of storage virtualisation products that will reduce the complexity and management associated with storage in the data centre.
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| | IBM published conceptual flyover for developers of Grid computing
IBM presents Grid computing as the next big thing in a newly issued article titled "Grid computing: Conceptual flyover for developers"
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| | New Sun compute Grid rack systems
Sun expanded its x86-based product line with the low end Sun Fire V60x and V65x systems. These new systems are offered with Solaris x86 Platform Edition or Red Hat Linux and Sun's Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Sun also said, it will announce the delivery of two fully integrated and supported Compute Grid rack systems, including GridEngine, for faster and more reliable compute Grid deployments. |
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| | IBM launches software and solution to help businesses extend key information to mobile workers
IBM's new Mobile Office Entry Jumpstart that includes IBM e-servers, WebSphere software and IBM services to help enterprises in numerous industries pilot and test run WebSphere software with Palm Tungsten handheld computers supporting up to 50 clients. |
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| | IBM acquires Think Dynamics
IBM has acquired Think Dynamics, a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Think Dynamics capability accelerates a critical element of IBM's strategy to help customers respond more quickly to changing business needs such as peaks in demand and potential system failures by dynamically allocating the right computing resources at the right time to the processes, minimising human error in the process. |
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| | IBM delivers real-time Information Integration software
IBM has made available its new DB2 Information Integrator software to help customers instantly access, integrate, manage and analyse all forms of information - stored on any platform - across and beyond the enterprise. According to IBM, DB2 Information Integrator software is critical to infrastructure supporting a Grid environment. |
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| | Madrid Autonomous Region deploys research network with Nortel Networks Solutions
Nortel Networks has supplied the necessary optical solutions to deploy and set up the Research Telematics Network of the Madrid Autonomous Region. Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 5200 multiservice platform, an optical-fibre communications system using dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), has been deployed to deliver broadband optical services. It will interconnect universities located in the region with the National Institute of Aerospace Technique (INTA), the Superior Center for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Internet.
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| | InfiniCon Systems launches low-profile HCA and embedded fabric management for its InfiniBand-based Shared I/O and Clustering Systems
InfiniCon Systems has launched strategic management and networking additions to its InfinIO product family.
Available are InfiniView Fabric Manager (FM), a GUI-based management application which can be embedded into InfiniCon's enterprise-class, InfinIO 7000 Shared I/O and Clustering System and into its entry-level InfinIO 2000 Switching System; and the InfiniServ 7000 Low Profile HCA, the first dual-port HCA to comply with the PCI-X low-profile form factor. |
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| | Successful pilot leads to partnership between datiq and COLT
In 2002 Datiq data logistics and COLT-telecom, a European provider of business communication services, worked together in a pilot project for fast, cost-efficient digital transmission of high
quality audio-visual material. Their partnership in this project recently acquired a permanent character. |
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| | GridG Version 1.0
The Northwestern University in the US, announced GridG Release 1.0. GridG is a generator of synthetic computational grids, which we model as
a network topology graph whose nodes and links are annotated with the
available hardware and software. |
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